The #1 "New York Times" bestselling author of "Leopard's Prey" returns to the feral underworld of her astonishing Leopard novels in an arousing new romance of forbidden animal instincts... Cat Benoit has finally escaped the past--and the man who was the source of her nightmares. She's off the grid, underground but watchful, and creating a new life for herself in Texas, far from the torrid dangers of her native New Orleans. She's safe. He'll never find her this time. Cat has to believe that. It's the only thing keeping her sane. Yet she can't escape the attention of Ridley Cromer, the instructor at the martial arts dojo where Cat takes lessons. She arouses the animal in Ridley--and something feral comes to life when their body heat rises. Cat is in no position to let her guard down with anyone, especially someone who could be endangered by her past. But Ridley has secrets of his own--secrets only Cat would understand. If she dares to trust him.

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Normally I love anything Christine Feehan writes and I have always liked her characters instant connections and her frequent sex scenes are all part of the story. But this book I didn't like as much. Mainly because sex seemed to be some sort of power the hero almost forced on the heroine. It had a fifty shades of grey flavour which I didn't like at all. The scenes were forceful and brutal and he described himself as a man who liked it rough and often. His number one rule was that he had to wake up in the morning with her mouth on his mouth or on his cock. She didn't really have a lot of backbone and it was all explained away as how desperately he loved her and "she got him". It all came very close to abuse to me especially when he was angry and threw her on a table and made her have multiple orgasms until she begged him to come inside her - a very odd relationship. I didn't enjoy reading this book as much because there wasn't a lot to the actual story - three quarters of the book was rough brutal sex and the rest was waiting for a madman to come and find them which was all dealt with in a chapter.

Christine Feehan is relying on her reputation and the book being part of a series which her public buys automatically. Not anymore. This book has extensive boring sex scenes and very little interesting dialogue. I challenge all readers to count the pages of the descriptive and unrealistic sex scenes and which because the characters have no real depth it is impossible to feel engaged in the book. End up skipping the pages and pages and pages. The characters and plot have lots of potential which is unfortunately completely futile as she does not expand on the basic premise. She is also doing this same 'book plan' with her Dark Series now as well. Such a disappointment

Much as I really enjoy all the series written by Christine Feehan, the story line suffers from too much explicit R-rated action. I am an older reader and feel that the over the top descriptions bog down the development of characters. A little bit goes a long way and too much is way too much. I will be buying her next book and hope that the 'Sisters of the Heart' series does not suffer from the same over the top explicit descriptions.

Christine feehans leopard series is the absolute best ever and what is so great is that you don't have to read the full series as each book is a stand alone novel. That said i highly recommend EVERY book in not only this series but every series she has written. Again all can be read as stand alones but they are amazi g and i recommend them to paranormal and/or romance fans. They have tbe best heroes and heroines and unlike most books they explain what each person is thinking and the attention to detail is unbelievable. Buy them all, I've read 37 of her novels at least four times each.

I have read all of Christine Feehan's books to date but have been sorely disappointed in the last few. Cat's Lair was the straw that broke the camel's back, and I will not be buying her books any more. What I loved with her previous books, is the soul connection/respect/love between the main characters and the action and the compelling storylines......the captivating interaction between me and the story, where it was difficult to put the book down. All this book had to offer was aggressive sex, bordering on sexual abuse and very little action or storyline. The author has changed her style of writing, and whilst this may suit many, it does not suit me, or sit well with me. I no longer enjoy her books and am actually quite sad to now part ways after being a loyal fan for many years. However, I will always treasure the many hours of awesome reading that she has given me and have no hesitation in recommending her earlier works.

I was really disappointed by this book! I'm a huge fan of Christine Feehan. It honestly felt it had been written in a rush. I mean the main character was so extremely controlling, demanding, overbearing bordering on abusive and yet blaming it all on their leopards! Otherwise all it is is sex this sex that.. Definitely not much thought put into the storyline

This was not one of her better books. For me there was too much sex and not enough story... Would have liked to had more interaction between the shifters and less of the same repeated sexual content. I skipped over a 3rd of the book as it was all the same thing.

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2.0 out of 5 starsVery disappointed

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I really didn't enjoy this book, it's such a shame because I've always liked Christine Feehan's books but I found this latest one soooo dull. It started off ok then just deteriorated into repetitive sex scenes. I was reading it on my kindle and it got to 84% before anything else apart from the sex happened. Honestly there's only so much I can take of our hero beating his chest and getting angry/possessive/angry/sexually dominant etc etc and our heroine being scared/submissive/rebellious/scared etc. I actually found myself skipping through a lot of this just to see if anything interesting actually happened and when it did it felt really rushed. All in all I found this to be a very repetitive book of sex scenes interspersed with a very small amount of story. Had there been less bedroom action and more story line this could have been a good read, as it was I'm sorry I bothered with it.

I have always loved Christine Feehan's books and the Leopard series have especially been one of my favourites. But this novel - I was so disappointed with it. It started off well enough and I thought it had the beginnings of an excellent storyline so imagine my disappointment when it started going downhill after the first few chapters. I like romantic, sexy books like anyone else but when the sex scenes became repetitive, I started to get bored and eventually started skim-reading through these monotonous chapters. There is only so much one can take. In fact I started to feel like a voyeur who was having unwanted lessons in the art of sex. Something I'm just not interested in.

The repetitive sex scenes lasted until nearly the end of the novel or at least until 80 to 85% (kindle version) of the book where it started becoming interesting again.

I enjoyed reading about the heroine Cat. Her character is very strong although her past has demoralized her into thinking she is worthless. She is very honest with Ridley the hero of the storyline but she doesn't trust easily.

Ridley was very dominating and although he was kind to Cat at first, he soon showed his true colours.

This novel had the makings of an exceptional novel. The characters of both the hero and heroine could have been developed even more but basically they came across very well.

I'm giving Cat's Lair 3 stars, one for the storyline at the beginning of the book and one for the storyline at the end. The third is an overall attempt at getting the characters right

this story started out really good and exciting and I was really enjoying it then there was a little twist which was predictable but exciting and I couldn't stop reading but by he time I got through 50% of the story it became boring but I perseveered as I've read lots of the authors novels and by the time I got to 65% I was so bored with the same boring story lines been repeated over and over so I began skimming page after page and still it was the same things being repeated i never missed anything but sex scenes that became boring and I love to read good sex scenes but the repetitiveness made them monotonous and by chapter 20 just out of the blue the action started which was ok and again by the last chapter it was boring.

Overall im very disapointed with this book and this is the 2nd book I've read recently by this author and I think they are following a pattern so I doubt I will purchase any more books.

Christine at her BEST as perusal. This is on your toes ALL the way through. Where we meet beautiful but quiet Catarina/Cat, who is hiding away from the rogue leopard shifter Rafe Cordeau, who 'raised' her in a mentally abusive way.Where we meet Eli an undercover detective come rogue shifter 'cop' where he's determined to get Cordeau so he tell's Cat he's in security and his name is Ridley Cromer where she first meets him at the Dojo. We see how their lives get together and where she trusts him, then she finds out he deceived her but then he had to protect her as he then has to talk her that she's a shifter and that He's Her Mate.Eli trains her how to protect herself and how to be able to run whilst she shifts. While they fall in💘 together. Then Cordeau finds her and they BOTH have to protect and survive with the outcome from his arrival. Can they protect survive and DEAL with Cordeau so they and the people she loves survive????

This is usually my favourite book series as it has undoubtedly produced some of the greatest lead characters in the genre. This couple fall so far short of the usual standard it's hard too accept they were created by the great C Feehan. There are occasional glimpses of something in the lead male (can't remember his name) but the female is so unbelievable it boarders on the ridiculous. The bulk of the story is endless repetitive chapters of the two alone attempting to build a relationship and waiting for a showdown with the uber baddie, who incidentally is by far the most interesting person in the story and with a bit of tweaking would have made a brilliant lead male. Where the heck is Elijah's or Joshua's story????

Thankyou, I received book quickly and in perfect condition . I am a big fan of Christine feehan and gradually buying her book's. I have not read this at the moment but read it previously having borrowed it from the local library. I can not wait to sit down and enjoy reading it again !

What happened??? He was the hero??? Give me a break!!!! He was nothing more than a bully. There were virtually no redeeming characteristics with him. He 'loved' her?? That's not love, the only thing he was interested in was getting his own way. He completely betrayed her and then expected her to just 'get over it' !!! Please you have got to be kidding!!!! He should have had to work a damn site harder for her forgiveness than he did. Really disappointed with this book.

What makes Feehan think that all that is needed in a book is sex and swearing.This book started off very well then just deteriorated in constant repeatition.I am disgusted with her.I have finished reading her books.There is no follow up at all with what started out a promising book.She seems to think no one cares about a story.She did the same with her Carpathians novels.

This begins well, but sags badly in the middle. There isn't much of a story line apart from leopard Eli' s need to dominate Catarina sexually and generally. There is a lit of pumping, handcuffing and holding Dow. Eventually the villain must make an appearance, although the "hero" is proving to be unpleasant enough on his own. Definitely not one of Feehan' s better works.

I have waited a long time for Ms Feehan to return to the 'cats' series - the storyline was good BUT the sex scenes were over the top and un-necessarily drawn out - spoiling the flow of the book . I enjoy all her books- including the sex scenes but not in this book .I feel she is using the sex scenes as fillers .

I have read most of the leopard people series and this one started off well but then ran out of steam. It's basically a rehash of all the other stories and frankly it's becoming a bit boring. The love scenes remain hot but often seem to be there for the sake of it rather than as part of the plot and if you took them all out the entire plot would be about 3 chapters long. All in all it seems like Christine Feehan has run out of ideas for this series and I probably won't buy another.

I am sorry to say that I was disappointed in this book, I couldn't wait for this book to come out because I am an avid fan of Christine feenan and normally her books don't disappoint but this book was a total sex fest I didn't like the Eli very much I found him a bit of a bully. I found my self skipping pages normally I can finish Christine Feenan books in one sitting but this one took me 31/2 days. I will continue reading this author's book because she one of my favourite writer and I love her dark Carpathian series.

Feehan is a superb world builder, and I own a lot of her books for that reason. I don't find her male heroes appealing, and this is the worst male across all series. As each one has got a little worse in the Leopard books, I will no longer buy this series. On a positive note, the story arc about taking down rogue leopards and their crime syndicates is starting to get interesting.

What a fantastic storyline this was I could not put it down.I loved the first book in the Leopard series and they just keep getting better.The characters,Jake,Eli,Drake,Remy etc are so solid and so dammed hot it is hard to pick a favourite ( think it's Drake )Please read them all you will not be disappointed.Would give them all 10 stars if I could.